You look out your window at the cold grey dawn

It's seven o'clock on a Monday morning

Pour a cup of coffee, better make it a strong one

Weather man on the radio says it going to rain

And it's going to blow

It'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run

Australia marched out of Vietnam

Out in the streets against Uncle Sam

We won the fight, it was a long one

Uranium demo the other way

One of my mates got dragged away

As they slammed the door I heard her say

It'll be all right in the long run

Italian bloke who works with me

We swap laughs and company

And he slapped me on the back

He said "You're wrong, son

This isn't the land I was told it would be

It's not so equal and not so free"

But it'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run"

From the shadow of history a convict screams

The shearers curse, the people dream

We've taken some right turns, they've been the wrong ones

Troop ships leave and the headlines blaze

Australia remembers happier days

And the faith lives on within the haze

It'll be all right in the long run

So you sit in your camp and you stare at the fire

The doubt drops away as the hopes get higher

And you sing to yourself

It'll be all right, be all right in the long run

And the sun gives ground to a long cold night

And you screw up your courage for another fight

But you know in your heart

It'll be all right, be all right in the long run

And the sun streams in with power and might

You look at your kids in a different light

You know in your heart as you kiss them goodnight

It'll be all right in the long run